Beneath the Wraps

I had worked for Franklin Covey on assignment from one of the temp places I had worked for.   I worked on the conveyer belt adding my one item to each box that would slide by. NOT a tough job by any means.   Periodically the staff would take a small break and shoot baskets or watch – part of an incentive program that I didn’t understand.   Nor did I make the connection that Steven L. Covey is related and had set up a 7 habit program within the working environment before Sean Covey brought it to a more youthful level and the program has now been introduced to various schools.          I had gone to a “Back to School” night when my three boys were in junior high and then an orientation with Jenna just before she started kindergarten.   Other than that I don’t remember hearing anything more about back to school except for those two times. Before Mrs. Randolf (best principal in the world) made the a...

         We were on the waiting list with a couple of charter schools.  I had even looked into homeschooling – which is probably what I would have ended up doing if someone hadn’t pointed out the dual immersion program.           The dual immersion program allows students to learn a language in addition to English.  Students have two teachers, one who teaches in English for half of the day. The other will teach in a foreign language with math as the prime subject and will touch on the other subjects. At the time there were only eight schools within this district that offered this dual immersion program.  Two offered Chinese, two offered French and four offered Spanish.  The school closest to where we are living teaches Spanish – which seemed to be the most logical of the three languages as we have contact with almost as many Spanish speaking people as English speaking....